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...overly harsh: the new bankers promoted more economic growth than the legendary gimlet-eyed banker of old, who would grant a loan only to a borrower who could prove that he did not need one. That, at least, is the central argument of Walter Wriston, the strongest champion and exemplar of the new banking. Under Wriston, Citibank has led in international expansion, computerization and the use of large CDs, and it was one of the first to appreciate the diversification possibilities of holding companies. (Citibank today is officially a subsidiary of Citicorp, a holding company also headed by Wriston, which...
...resort in California's Mineral King valley, 16,000 acres of national forest land high in the southern Sierra Nevada. Controversy erupts, fueled by the public's revived awareness of environmental abuse. Behind the contested $35-40 million project is not ITT but the corporation created by a childhood exemplar of the Leave-It-to-Beaver generation--the father of Bugs Bunny and Donald Duck, Walt Disney. Thus fell another idol of Maynard's generation...
...note-taking off the bench and his analysis of the issues." Freund said of Holmes. He summed up his impression of the man by observing that "the joyous freedom of his mind, the greatness of his life, and the high way he took his mortality made him an exemplar for a time of searching...
...sometimes perceptive, some times ponderous essays about Nixon, Watergate, Cambodia, Agnew or poli tics in general. The New Yorker's sol emn discovery of causes was often over bearing and relentless. Indeed, Critic Philip Nobile, in his journalistic study Intellectual Skywriting, found the mag azine a prime exemplar of radical chic...
...stories focus on things that don't matter much, and when that becomes clear they shift to things that matter even less, from Ford's alleged slowness to his willingness to pick up his own newspaper. And when reporters discover the same man they're been billing as an exemplar of truth-telling telling lies about Chile, they don't know how to account for it: all they can do is change their line. Because they share Ford's false assumptions, his more radical dishonesty...